The year's final Book Post!

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Asterisks are still trustily serving their function: calling attention to books I've already read. (This is not relevant information unless you will be looking under the cut.)

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Heh. It actually wasn't *that* bad. (Which is not to say that it was good either, mind.)

The general impression I get from people who've read the entire series is that it progresses something like this: "Huh. This isn't so bad... why are people- um. Oh dear. This is getting a bit... Oh, for the love of... GOOD GRIEF WHY DID I EVER START THIS TRAIN WRECK OF A SERIES???"

There were actually some rather funny bits of text in this one. It's just that it alternated between that and parts that read horrifyingly like bad fanfiction, leaving one rather bewildered about how the same person that wrote this bit could possibly be dunce enough to have written that bit.

Anyway, you probably won't quite want to throw yourself from a window if you pick up a used copy. :)

p.s. Further reasons not to go the library route:

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Tell me about Bonk and Stiff.

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Oh, they are both extremely nifty. It is hard to resist a funny science writer, and Mary Roach is hilarious. When I was reading Bonk, I kept bookmarking pages with things I wanted to quote in an LJ entry, but I gave it up when I realized I was going to be typing out half the book.

Stiff does deserve a squeamishness warning, mostly for the bits about what happens to your internal organs when you're thrown around during plane crashes and whatnot, but despite the occasional cringe I enjoyed it greatly.